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> Seems like the way to go these days?

No I think people use parser generators less these days.

> Why write it yourselves if you can generate it from EBNF notation?

Can you write EBNF for it? Can you generate a parser from the EBNF? EBNF and most parser generators are designed for context-free languages. Most languages are context-sensitive. You can see where things start to go wrong...



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